Mozilla Creates New Subsidiary For Thunderbird
After announcing that it was considering letting Thunderbird go, Mozilla has now chosen to create a new subsidiary with $3 million startup money to focus on the development of Thunderbird. Mozilla’s choice to create a subsidiary rather than releasing the email client to the open source community was the result of the discussion and voting by the community.
The new subsidiary which has yet to be named, is being called MailCo for now. Mozilla CEO, Mitchell Baker, had this to say in the official announcement:
The new organization doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ll call it MailCo here. MailCo will be part of the Mozilla Foundation and will serve the public benefit mission of the Mozilla Foundation. (Technically, it will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, just like the Mozilla Corporation.)
We’ll be setting up MailCo in the coming weeks. Part of this is forming the team of people, part is developing a transition plan to move Thunderbird into MailCo gracefully while supporting the Thunderbird users. That will take some time. We ‘re on the path now though and that’s a great thing.
Do you think that having a subsidiary focus on Thunderbird’s development is better than having the open source community continue its development?
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September 19th, 2007 23:16
If this “subsidiary” is really as good as the Mozilla team, then I would go for them.
Only time will tell what’s next in Thunderbird’s fate. Poor Thunderbird